Travis Denning grew up in Georgia with his parents and sister, and one of the family\u2019s Christmas traditions was to decorate four Christmas trees!<\/p>\n
His family also opened presents on Christmas Eve, which actually gives them more time to spend together.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite Christmas tradition is we always open presents the night before and used to, I always thought it was \u2018cause me and my sister ragged on my parents until they let us. But now the older I get, and to me it really does make a difference. I wake up on Christmas Day and think about what it really means instead. My parents always do a big breakfast; mimosas on Christmas morning. It\u2019s just such a great family affair, and I just think ultimately in opening presents on Christmas Eve versus Christmas Day, we get to spend time reflecting on what it really means.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What Christmas means to Travis goes beyond exchanging gifts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe older I got, as clich\u00e9 as it sounds, I mean it really isn\u2019t about the gifts. It\u2019s more about drinking some whiskey with dad while the little nephew or whatever open presents or my little cousins,\u201d he says. \u201cIt turns into sentimental things and what matters. For me one year, that was a shotgun and then it was a, just a Stranger Things coffee mug that my mom got me, which I drink [out of] every morning. Those things that are just more like, \u2018Hey-I thought about you and I put a lot of you in this gift,\u2019 you know, and that\u2019s what I love about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Georgia native says his favourite Christmas memory and favourite Christmas gift were both musical.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favourite holiday memory as a child was when I got my first guitar for a million obvious reasons, but I felt like I finally got something I was really passionate about and dove head-first into it. I think the best gift I\u2019ve ever received during the holidays to this day is still probably the mandolin my dad got me when I was 19 years old,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was just super awesome, and I\u2019d been wanting one for a while, and it was a really touching and special gift.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Denning grew up in Georgia with his parents and sister, and one of the family\u2019s Christmas traditions was to decorate four Christmas trees!","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[238,926],"class_list":["post-26970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-christmas","tag-travis-denning"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 05:29:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/12\/travis-denning-talks-christmas-traditions\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26971,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970\/revisions\/26971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}